Demi Lovato Reveals the Exact Moment That Made Her Seek Treatment for Her Addiction

Demi Lovato has always been very candid about her past addiction struggles. When she was 18 years old, the "Body Say" singer entered a rehab facility to seek treatment for several issues, including depression, self-harm, bulimia, and substance abuse. She's opened up about getting sober, staying sober, and how her life has changed since seeking help.

And now in her new YouTube documentary, Simply Complicated, Lovato reveals the exact chain of events that made her seek treatment in the first place. Of course, Lovato fans know the general story: She was using frequently, and things hit a fever pitch when she punched a backup dancer. In this new documentary, however, she and her loved ones talk about this time with more detail and vulnerability than ever before.

"I was not easy to work with," Lovato says in the documentary, before Nick Jonas chimes in, "And then this episode happened"—referring to the punching, presumably.

"Demi walks up on to the plane. I turn around, and Demi had punched her backup dancer in the face," a friend of Lovato's says.

After this, Lovato says she went on a two-month "bender," where she was "using daily." It was this that led the people around her to think she was on a "road to suicide." They all knew in this moment that change needed to happen.

Watch Lovato discuss this in the first trailer for Simply Complicated, below. The singer even admits it's hard to talk about these events on camera.

"I'm on a journey to discover what it's like to be free of all demons," she also says in the film, which hits YouTube on October 17.

In November 2016 Lovato spoke frankly to Glamour about how hard it's been to get to a place of peace and sobriety. "I feel healthy, I feel happy," she said. "Back then I felt an emptiness inside of me, and I reached for so many things—a person, a substance, a behavior—to fill that void. And now there’s not a void anymore. The void is filled by me taking care of myself.… Getting sober was difficult. I went into rehab, I came out, and I didn’t stay sober. I still had issues occasionally. Now some days it’s difficult; some days it’s easy."